Multiple Vaccine Clinics to be Available This Week

After a challenging season during a world pandemic with many changes along the way, The Dalles Riverhawks cheer team won a state championship on Sunday.

Dry Hollow Elementary Teacher Ms. Emily Stewart puckered up last Friday, May 14, when she made good on a deal with students to kiss a pig in a fundraiser to purchase trees for Sorosis Park. The drive brought in $3,000, a record for the school. But Ms. Stewart had to pay the piper with this 500-pound sow. Maybe next year, they should kiss the piglet?

It’s not a typical high school project, but little is at Riverbend Community School on the Columbia Gorge Community College Campus. “We get to do projects and work with our hands,” said Blake Darr of the landscape project. “It’s a lot better than reading textbooks all day.”

The Dalles High School basketball season starts next week. I got to talk to the coaches of the men’s and women’s teams today. They gave me a small rundown on their teams and season this year.

Sluggers Give Their Moms the Best Gift: A Championship

The Dalles High School’s track team will be attending districts this weekend. In past years the team would bring their varsity team to districts. Their Varsity team is the top 3 athletes at each event and the rest is Junior Varsity. But with sports and the season being complicated because of COVID-19, they’re bringing the whole team. It’s more about giving the kids a good opportunity to get better and make some new PR’s.

The Dalles High School 2021 Scholarship Recipients

A line quickly formed at the Rivertap for the inaugural “Take a Bite Out of COVID” mobile vaccine event May 7. The next event is planned for May 21, with details to follow.

Dry Hollow principal Ajay Rundell spurred donations when he came to school in this pig costume. Students at the school raised thousands of dollars for trees at Sorosis Park in a Kiss the Pig fundraiser.

Nana I Ke Kumu seeks to connect seekers to their values, their breath, their spirit, and the tools they need to live happier, healthier, and more fully realized lives through coaching techniques that blend everything from modern psychology, business, sales, and marketing success trainings, to mysticism, yoga, and astrology.

The silence is deafening for some. Two months have passed since the first self-imposed deadline to ink a deal that would bring $1.2 billion in Google investments for two new data centers in The Dalles. So what’s going on?

North Wasco County School District 21 is well on its way towards the long-term goal of a health center at The Dalles High School. With the help of grants, the ESD is working with school districts in Wasco and Hood River counties to figure out how to provide more school-based treatable mental health care.

It’s a tough job. And what job worth doing is easy?

Fostering children intends to give a whole new outlook on life, one where a child can learn to love themselves as well as others, find success, and swell a foster parent’s heart with pride.

Regional Airport manager David Rasmussen is set to ask The Dalles City Council to sign a lease agreement for an airplane hanger that will eventually house a community college aviation maintenance program. The meeting is slated to start at 5:30 p.m. tonight, May 10, and is available via ZOOM.

Robin Allen is on a mission to make her community a happier and more stylish place. Her new life and styling services fund and soon-to-be show “Stylist for the People”, will gift transformative life styling services to marginalized communities in Oregon, Washington, and California.

Chelsea Albin of Rivertap shows off a fresh bandaid at Rivertap This morning, May 7. The bar as well as Freebridge Brewing, Bargeway Pub and Sunshine Mill are participating in a mobile vaccination against COVID-19 this evening, Friday, May 7. Participants earn $10 in token to go toward food. Herd immunity just got tasty!

UPDATED MAY 7th, 2021 to include comment from Wasco County Republican Committee Chair Betsy Hege “I put together a list of Republican candidates that were running and that list ended up on our website,” said Hege. “I deeply regret it because of what happened.”

Sally Fasulo, Bonnie Foote, Ann Ketchum, and Connie Christensen work away at the wall of Mah Jongg tiles on Wednesday Afternoon, May 5 at 409 Lincoln Street, The Dalles. The group has been getting together on Wednesdays to play the Chinese game for more than two decades.

Riverfront living is starting to catch on in The Port of The Dalles. And maybe riverfront working is too. With townhouses upstairs and commercial space downstairs, developers are tapping into a new age of work and play. And It may soon define how we think of Riverfront Trail west.